Bojonegoro, Indonesia, 27 April 2016 – A sprawling district of 1.2 million people, Bojonegoro is traditionally among the poorest districts of East Java province. But the discovery in 2001 of a huge oi...

Washington DC, April 21, 2016—The World Bank approved today an International Development Association (IDA) credit of $50 million to increase the availability of vaccines for infectious diseases, inclu...

Additional nutrition investment of $2.2 billion/year over 10 years could save 2.2 million lives and reduce the number of stunted children by 50 million Washington, DC – Leading researchers and economi...

Challenge Despite recent dramatic improvements in maternal and child health, Cambodia still has great inequities in health outcomes based on socio-economic status and between rural and urban populatio...

Every year, malnutrition claims the lives of 3 million children under age five and costs the global economy billions of dollars in lost productivity and health care costs. Yet those losses are almost ...

WASHINGTON, April 14, 2016 – World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake today jointly urged global and national leaders to step up and accelerate action and inv...

Thank you, Femi. As some of you know, for the last few years, the World Bank Group has been guided by twin goals – ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity for the poorest 40 perc...

Bulgaria has a well-established system for child care, with nearly 83 percent of Bulgarian children going to kindergarten. Expanding this service to include the excluded 17 percent of kids, however, w...